Indian Railway revised their refund rules with effect from 01.07.2013. Following is the summary of the rules. If you want to read full details, please refer the document published in their website. Levy of clerkage If you can cancel your unreserved, wait-listed and RAC tickets, clerkage charge will be taken per passenger at the rate of rupees 15 for second class (unreserved) and rupees 30 for second class (reserved) and other classes. Unused tickets on [...]

Indian Railway Enabled Virtual Reservation Message (VRM) System to travel without the printout of e-ticket Now you can travel in trains in India, without having a hardcopy(printout) of the e-ticket. Previously we have to take a prinout of the e-ticket booked from IRCTC. Now you just need to show the screenshoot of the e-ticket through laptops/palmtops/ Mobile phone and this is called Virtual Reservation Message (VRM). VRM along with any one of the eight prescribed [...]